Highlights and Highlights

First up mega thanks for all the love... it rocks, trust me.

In update news:

Had a straight up amazing Auckland Anniversary weekend. Spent Sat at the zoo with my friend Bex and my fav lil man - my Godson Josh is 4, almost 5... current favourite words are butt and poo... fun times.

That night went to premier of "Juno" - HOT TIP: SEE IT! Rawks! Esp as an adoptee kid... made me think stuff.

Sunday my lil bro came round with his lady, and Millenium Edition Monopoly... credit cards instead of cash and I was the skateboard... rad. That night had a Buzz fest with friends... I love it but HATE that last round... always end up loosing! Er!

Monday got a message from someone in my past... a chance to rebuild badly broken bridges... amazing, a shock and such a good thing. Got my hair cut for the first time in AGGGGGGGES! Feels so much lighter... love to Leste, she did the chop it for me while Ang and I watched Newport Bay on MTV.com... ta chicka!

As for the rest of the week... kids are CRAZY! It's Back to School time AKA Neens feet are killing her! Argh!

But that just makes the end of day even sweeter. I am reorganising my scrap studio. I promise to post photos as soon as it's done. And hot tips would be awesome... if you've been scrapping for any lenght of time you know my pain - and I have about 5 years of stash piled up... culling big time. In the mean time - back to the studio ;)

The big sucky news

So this is what I've been holding off telling people... I have resigned from the Design Team at Scrapbook Essentials. The January kit was my last.

Sigh...

I won't try and sugar coat it... it does suck and it has really not been an easy choice to make... but I do know that in the end it is the best for me and for the rest of the SE community.

I have some pretty heavy stuff going down... health wise... some of which I need to work through and the rest I really am not keen to talk about until I am completely through the process... it is scary but I have Mike and my family to look after me through it all.

I just had to look at life and what I am doing with my time... work I can't stop cause life is life and it costs money... but then the next thing I spend most time on is scrapping... and I just can't handle the deadlines right now that come with being on the DT.

I wish I could stay on but it's just too much at the moment with everything else. I am so sad that I wan't be able to stay on the journey with the new team... esp with the newbies Hannah and Janine... I seriously think you guys rock and can't wait til we meet and greet and I can tell you in person.

Meg has been amazing and more than just a site owner but a great supporter of me now just now but throughout the last year and a bit and I am so thankful for all she has given me.

So... thats that...

What am I up to?

Well I am working on my travel albums (everyone sing out a collective YAY!).

I have been trying to get these done for a while and was truely inspired by Ali's New Zealand mini album This style of album is really letting me do what I wanted to with the photos.

I will post more of it later... I have finished the Brussels album and and over halfway done on the Paris one (or two... this is a bigg'n! - how do you take 150 photos in 3 days! Shocker).

I am also working on Julies prize layout from the Kiwi Jack Me Up... almost finished I promise... just got the photo developed today so that goes forward tonight. Speaking of jacks kick off again on the 1st of Feb so keep those peepers peeped for that.

I am also doing Elsies Paper 08 project... check it out... I will post my pages later on too...

Also I see that the new look site went live today at Scrapbook Essentials... ohhhhhh FLASH! Check it out!

For prosperity

So I guess I am a little late with this... but for prosperitys sake I wanted to post these here as well as in the gallery at Scrapbook Essentials... this was a spcail kit for me... will tell you all about it soon.

My New Band...

...well a fun game anyway.

Make your new bands album this way...

Take the name of your band from this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Your album name from the last 5 words of the last quote on this page: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

And the 3rd picture here will be your album cover art: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

;) Have fun... I was completely stoked with how perfect my album name is... so true right now.

Cool in the 90's

LOOKIT ME... I got chocolate All Star hi tops... yeah. Just wait til the cool kids at school see these ;)

Summer Promenade Kit!

Sneaky peeks... and big news soon - you know the sort of news "sad but for the best in the long run" type news....

Farewell to Sir Ed

'I have had the world lie beneath my clumsy boots. And saw the red sun slip
over the horizon after the dark Antarctic winter. I have been given more than my
fair share of excitement, beauty, laughter and friendship.

But for me the most rewarding moments have not always been the great moments - for what can surpass a tear on your departure, joy on your return, or a trusting hand in yours.'

Bang bang saw saw

So you may have noticed that I am in the throws of trying to clean up and change my blog a little... new year and all that...

If you are not on my blog list don't stress - you will be... or you can comment and remind me "gentley".

So in the meantime consider this under construction... come again soon ;)

PS: I am also scrapping with the new now sold out kit from Scrapbook Eseentials - more on that soon.

Resolutions

To have no resolutions...

Life is just life... it is simply crafted for living.

I honestly believe that one of my biggest issues comes from having huge expectations of life. And I often coming crashing down when things don't live up to the cookie cutter, movie script ideals in my mind.

So this year I make no resolution other than to try my best to enjoy it.